Category Archives: movies

Join us TUESDAY, SEPT. 19, for a special screening in 101 Moffitt*, at 8 PM. Screenwriter and director Valerio Ruiz will be with us to present his short films Piazza Fellini (writer and director, 2011), and Roma, Napoli, Venezia…in un crescendo…

On Wednesday, March 1st, at 8PM in 159 Mulford, we’ll be screening Susanna Nicchiarelli’s LA SCOPERTA DELL’ALBA, the story of a woman given the chance to change the past and possibly prevent her father’s death…

The Italian Society at Berkeley with New Italian Cinema Events (NICE) will be co- presenting Claudio Cupellini’s 2015 film The Beginners (Alaska) at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco at 6PM on Saturday, November 19th Nadine,…

“Black Panthers, Pop Art, and 1960s California in the Films of Antonello Branca” This two-day event honors the work of Italian filmmaker Antonello Branca with a series of first-time screenings and a roundtable discussion of…

BLAXPLOITALIAN follows the different waves of pioneers of African descent who have contributed to Italian Cinema. The documentary covers more than a century, starting from silent and colonial cinema to get to contemporary cinema. The…

We will be screening a documentary on “eXXpedition“, an all-female crew that raced across the Atlantic Ocean on 72-foot sailboat, Sea Dragon, in November/December 2014. The crew conducted scientific research while sailing, exploring the global…

Independent film-maker Elena Rossini will present her documentary, The Illusionists, which analyzes the marketing of unattainable beauty and the disturbing effects Western beauty standards have across the world. The Illusionists features the testimonies of sociologists, politicians, magazine…